Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa/bureau des Services a la Jeunesse d'Ottawa
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 108228545RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($34,381,037) as filed with the CRA.
Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa/bureau des Services a la Jeunesse d'Ottawa is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $34.5M in revenue and $34.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $742K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 274 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $214K in 2024, the largest being $214K to The Children's Aid Society of Ottawa/la Societe de l'Aide a l'Enfance d'Ottawa. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
1) *mental health programs-counselling services*: service coordination intensive family support wraparound youth mental health walk-in clinic youth and family counselling bridges program 2) *mental health pgms – crisis services*: step up step down mobile crisis 3) *youth justice services*: anger management community reintegration mental health court worker provincial reintegration funds sherwood youth center william hay centre youth justice transportation 4) *community services programs*: downtown youth centre michelle heights drop-in youth engagement young men’s shelter yo…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $34.5M | $34.4M | $30.9M | — | $414K | $4.1M |
| 2023 | $33M | $32.9M | $29.6M | — | $39K | $4.1M |
| 2022 | $32.6M | $32.7M | $29.6M | — | — | $3.8M |
| 2021 | $32.4M | $32.4M | $29.2M | — | — | $4M |
| 2020 | $30.3M | $30.4M | $27.7M | — | — | $3.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $214K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $742K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions274
- Total compensation, all staff$24.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael D'Amico (past chair); Anne Huot (director); Donna Macneil-Charbot (secretary); Susan Tataryn (director); Robbin Tourangeau (director); Melissa Forgie (director); Tanya Gracie (chair); Meena Roberts (vice chair); Duane McNair (treasurer); Yen Do (director); David Keneford (director); Peter Lambertucci (director); Anne Lawson (director); Robert Rheaume (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa/bureau des Services a la Jeunesse d'Ottawa’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108228545RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.